'i^d. IIashroitck o?/ the Carolina Paroquet. [October 



For Maryland and the District of Columbia the records are 

 limited to the flock that appearetl at the Capital in 186^ ; this 

 flock, according to Smith and Palmer,* was a large one, as it 

 left numbers of its company with the gunners who were on the 

 marshes at the time of its appearance; but unfortunately there is 

 evidence of only one specimen having been preserved. 



For the Virginias I quote from the admirable paper by Rives 

 ('Birds of the Virginias')! vvho says: "Although a flock was 

 seen as recently as 1S65 [the same as that recorded for Maryland 

 and the District], it can no longer be regarded as a Virginia 

 bird, though formerly not uncommon." Catesby also mentions^ 

 the Paroquet in 1731 ^s ranging as far north as Virginia, but, as 

 was usual at that time, omitted any definite locality. North 

 Carolina has but one record — that by Catesb}^ but in South 

 Carolina Burnett gives it§ as being resident in the Pine Barrens 

 in 1S51, while Coues in his 'Synopsis'|| writes: "This species 

 is given in Prof. Gibbes' list, and appeared to have been in 

 former times a , common bird, but its occurrence has not been 

 noted for 3'ears." Georgia furnishes a good example of a miss- 

 ing link in the chain of history; very little systematic work has 

 been done in this State, and there appear to be no lists of the 

 birds inhabiting it. It is plainly evident that the species for- 

 merly lived there although no record of it may exist. 



Florida was at all times the home of the Paroquet, but it would 

 appear from Taylor's account^ that as recently as 1S63 they were 

 common throughout the State. In 1S74 they were becoming 

 scarce even here, although Ober reported** them as still abun- 

 dant along the Upper Kissimmee River, and a few flocks seen 

 near Okeechobee. In 1S75 they visited Volusia County in im- 

 mense numbersfl, and in 18S0 a large flock made its appearance, 

 since when none have been seen in that locality. In 1885 a 

 small colony was known to breed in Waukulla swamp, about 



*Auk, V, 1S88, p. 148. 



fProc. Newport Nat. Hist. Soc, Doc. VII, 1889-90, p. 64. 



JNat. Hisf. Carolina, Florida and Bahamas, 1731, p. 11. 



(jProc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., IV, 1851, p. ii'6. 



||Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1868, p. 119. 



Hlbis, IV, 1862, p. 127-142, 197-207. 



**Forest and Stream, II, 1874, p. 162. 



ttForest and Stream, XXIV. 1885, p. 487. 



